Legal Opinion
Spelling v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided February 26, 1992No. 2-91-117-CRPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HILL, Justice.
Arema Margaret Spelling appeals from the jury’s assessment of her punishment for the offense of murder at life imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, and the jury’s finding that she used or exhibited a deadly weapon during the murder. This cause had previously been remanded for a new hearing on punishment due to the inclusion of a parole law instruction in the court’s charge in her initial trial.
Spelling urges in two points of error that the trial court erred by submitting a deadly weapon issue in its charge in violation of due…
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- Brandon v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
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